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Cats are (almost) liquid

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253 points lnyan | 1 comments | 17 Oct 24 11:43 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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wormlord ◴[17 Oct 24 14:48 UTC] No.41870187[source]▶
Before I had cats, I used to think of them in terms of other animals. What I mean is that a dog or a horse is very defined by its skeletal structure. They are like popsicle stick armatures with some flesh thrown on.

Now I think of cats more like amorphous blobs with some hard bits stuck on. I think anyone who owns a cat will know what I mean by this.

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1. toss1 ◴[17 Oct 24 22:58 UTC] No.41874658[source]▶
A stray cat I adopted as we could not find his owner was named "Beanbag" (transitioning to "Mr Bean", no reference to the comedian)for exactly this quality.

After a few days of recovery and starting to get comfortable, he started to snooze and literally poured off the couch, like a bag of beans... and he loved to stretch in my lap while I coded, putting up with all the typing & mousing... Truly liquid, indeed! Wonderful little guy, I still miss him.